Message from the Dean

Welcome to San Francisco Law School!

We are proud at San Francisco Law School of our commitment to diversity in our student
body. We know that our students make the decision to study law, often at great personal
sacrifice. They come seeking to fulfill a desire to pursue a career in the law or
perhaps, as an enhancement to their established business or occupation.

As with every graduate program, law school is time-intensive and demands the mastering
of new skills. We have intentionally built an inclusive, supportive culture at San
Francisco Law School so that our students can excel and graduate on to successful
careers in law. Students who began their legal education at another law school, have
often found that our more personalized, tutorial approach to teaching law, extended
over our four year program is more accommodating to their needs. In addition, we have
many eminent graduates and friends who volunteer their time and effort to mentor students
who request special assistance.

Our faculty is comprised of practicing attorneys and judges who bring both expertise
and practical experience to their courses and we use the casebook method in our curriculum
to focus attention on issue identification, legal analysis and reasoning. There are
no "right" answers to memorize at San Francisco Law School.

We invite you to attend one of our monthly Open Houses or to sit in on a class to
get a first-hand idea of what it is like to be a law student at San Francisco Law
School.